ATLANTA -- It's gumbo, jazz, and chess every Friday night. The boards are out and the matches underway. Samuel Washington has a new student. "This has been a cat and mouse game so far, right?" The new ...

Computers have been beating humans at chess for decades, and they’re now so predictably good at it that chess grandmasters won’t even bother to compete against them. But in what feels like a gesture ...

Although it might not be as ancient as games like Go, chess remains one of the oldest and most popular board games in the world. People have been putting different spins on the original game ever ...

To all chess players, chess is more than a game. For all the others, what’s the big deal about the game, they ask. The 32 pieces and pawns on the 64-square board have passionate fans the world over, ...